Welcome back, folks! Last time around we kicked off a four-part look at the Colt 1862 Police revolver, covering the design philosophy that produced it, the Civil War timing that hampered its sales, the factory fire that made things worse, and the conversion craze that ate up the majority of survi...
The Supreme Court’s Hemani decision reinforces a simple constitutional reality: the government cannot restrict the right to keep and bear arms unless it can prove the restriction fits America’s historical tradition.
I love 1911 handguns. There is something about the short and light trigger that helps me shoot 1911 pistols more precisely than any other pistol platform. Quite simply, the 1911 pistol hits “home” with me. The craftsmanship engineered into a 1911 supersedes other semi-auto pistols by far for ...
Cadre Holdings subsidiary Safariland has been chosen as the ballistic panel provider for a major FBI Armor Contract with their relatively new, SX HP Level IIIA Ballistic Panel , being the product that was selected. This ballistic panel was only introduced last year in 2025, and is already receivi...
In this article, Greg Frebourg reviews the Springfield Ronin EMP 9mm pistol. The handgun was loaned to the author by the company for this article. If it quacks like a duck, floats, walks and looks like a duck, well, it is a duck. That common sense saying might be full of wisdom, but it falls Read...
How our former shooting editor made history in benchrest competition The post ‘I Finally Shot a Good Group.’ The Story of Jim Carmichel’s Benchrest World Record appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Handmade knives are great, but sometimes the problem is that there aren’t enough hands. Anyone who’s tried getting a custom knife only to be forever chasing them to be in stock understands the pain. L.T. Wright Knives from Winterville, Ohio, is a small shop that typically does all of ...
The Palmetto State Armory PA-15 is a bare bones AR-15 that makes for an excellent starter rifle at an outstanding price point.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Sheridan Knockabout single shot pistol manufactured 1953 to 1960, chambered in .22 S/L/LR. Sheridan is mostly remembered for air guns and that’s fair, but they made this thing too. The Knockabout was about as simple as a pistol gets. S...
What belongs in a patrol vehicle trauma kit beyond the issued IFAK, how to organize it for access under stress, and the consumable rotation discipline that keeps it functional when it matters.